275. Prisoners are strictly forbidden to have in their possession, or to attempt to receive, money, tobacco, opium, flint, steel, iron, implements, string, immoral hooks, or any articles not allowed to them by the Rules of the prison, not permitted by the Superintendent, and they are not to conceal any articles of food nor any weapons about their persons or in any ward or cell.
276. No punishment nor privation of any kind shall be awarded except by the Superintendent or by the Superintendent in conjunction with a Visiting Justice.
277. The following acts are declared to be offences against prison discipline:-
1. Disobedience of the rules of the prison by any prisoner.
2. Common assault by one prisoner on another.
3. Profane cursing and swearing and obscene language by any prisoner.
4. Indecent behaviour by any prisoner.
5. Wilful mismanagement of work or idleness or negligence at work or refusal to labour by any convicted criminal prisoner.
6. Disorderly conduct by any prisoner.
278. A prisoner guilty of any offence under the preceding Rule may be punished for the same by the Superintendent with any one or more of the following punishments:--
1. Close confinement in a partially darkened or light cell on bread or rice and water for a period not exceeding seven days.
2. Deprivation of his pork for not more than four meals consecutively.
3. Separate confinement upon full diet and the authorized scale of penal diet on alternate weeks for any period not exceeding forty-two days, of which period any term of close confinement awarded at the same time shall form part.
279. The Superintendent may restrain in cross-irons of ten lbs. weight, or less, or in handcuffs, any disorderly or violent prisoner for not longer than twenty-four hours at one time; if a longer period than twenty-four hours is required a written order must be obtained from one of the Visiting Justices for the week, who shall at once attend and investigate the case. In case of emergency, however, the Superintendent may on his own responsibility impose the restraints provided by this rule for such period as may seem necessary, obtaining the presence of one of the Visiting Justices for the week as soon as possible. The order of such Justice, made on investigation of the case, shall indemnify the Superintendent.
280. If any male prisoner is guilty of any of the following offences, namely:-
1. Mutiny or open incitement to mutiny in the prison, or
2. Personal violence or attempted personal violence to any officer or servant of the prison, or
3. Aggravated or repeated assault on a fellow-prisoner, or
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275. Prisoners are strictly forbidden to have in their possession, or to attempt to receive, money, tobacco, opium, flint, steel, iron, imple- ments, string, immoral hooks, or any articles not allowed to them by the Rules of the prison, not permitted by the Superintendent, and they are not to conceal any articles of food nor any weapons about their persons or in any ward or cell.
276. No punishment nor privation of any kind shall be awarded except by the Superintend ent or by the Superintendent in conjunction with a Visiting Justice.
277. The following acts are declared to be offences against prison discipline:-
1. Disobedience of the rules of the prison
by any prisoner.
2. Common assault by one prisoner on
another.
3. Profane cursing and swearing and ob
scene language by any prisoner.
4. Indecent behaviour by any prisoner.
5. Wilful mismanagement of work or idle- ness or negligence at work or refusal to labour by any convicted criminal prisoner.
6. Disorderly conduct by any prisoner. 278. A prisoner guilty of any offence under the preceding Rule may be punished for the same by the Superintendent with any one or more of the following punishments :--
1. Close confinement in a partially darkened or light cell on bread or rice and water for a period not exceeding seven days.
2. Deprivation of his pork for not more than
four meals consecutively.
3. Separate confinement upon full diet and the authorized scale of penal diet on alternate weeks for any period not exceeding forty-two days, of which period any term of close confinement awarded at the same time shall form part.
279. The Superintendent may restrain in cross-irons of ten lbs. weight, or less, or in hand- cuffs, any disorderly or violent prisoner for not longer than twenty-four hours at one time; if a longer period than twenty-four hours is required a written order must be obtained from one of the Visiting Justices for the week, who shall at once attend and investigate the case. In case of emergency, however, the Superintendent may on his own responsibility impose the restraints pro- vided by this rule for such period as may seem necessary, obtaining the presence of one of the Visiting Justices for the week as soon as possible. The order of such Justice, made on investigation of the case, shall indemnify the Superintendent.
280. If any male prisoner is guilty of any of the following offences, namely, :---
1. Mutiny or open incitement to mutiny in
the prison, or
2. Personal violence or attempted personal
violence to any officer or servant of the prison, or
3. Aggravated or repeated assault on a
fellow-prisoner, or
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